4 Quotes by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

ব্যোমকেশবাবু, শোকের স্মৃতি মুছে ফেলবার কি কোনো ওষুধ আছে?"ব্যোমকেশ গভীর নিঃশ্বাস ফেলিয়া বলিল, "একমাত্র ওষুধ মহাকাল।

I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!

The day that man discovered the tools to kill another human being, he also brought into being a weapon that could boomerang upon him at any time. The sophisticated weaponry that is, in great secrecy, being produced all over the world today, might one day serve to destroy the entire human race. Like the demon who sprung into being from Brahma’s imagination, like Frankenstein’s monster, it won’t even spare its creators. Don’t you think so?

This gives us two whys. Why do people still read Byomkesh? Why do we need a hot afternoon in a quiet house in a small town to discover Byomkesh?